The Oerwoud was not safe.
It was freed from the Void, but it was still the nearest region to Starfall that did not have the protection of an Old God, and Hadama was very much aware of that fact. Kingly duties and personal obligations - many pleasant, to be fair - often kept him away from the jungle, but when he could make time for it he still came here to walk the vine-strewn paths of the Tanglefoot and swim the Wishtide Waterways, ensuring that nothing had changed since the Void had been driven back. If he had another Lily, or better yet a Rose...
But he did not. And for the moment this was all that he could do.
"Thank you for meeting me here," he rumbled to Sohalia as they made their way across the long and winding bridge that would lead them to the back of the cliff that was home to the Leap of Faith. It had been very good indeed to see her at the Festival, but the nature of the gathering had made it hard to speak together, and catch up on all that had transpired since her abduction. The trip today was less comfortable than meeting in the Court of Stars... but by that token it was hopefully a less likely place for any eavesdropping members of the Family to look for them while Soh told him her tale. "Have you traveled this way before?"
It was freed from the Void, but it was still the nearest region to Starfall that did not have the protection of an Old God, and Hadama was very much aware of that fact. Kingly duties and personal obligations - many pleasant, to be fair - often kept him away from the jungle, but when he could make time for it he still came here to walk the vine-strewn paths of the Tanglefoot and swim the Wishtide Waterways, ensuring that nothing had changed since the Void had been driven back. If he had another Lily, or better yet a Rose...
But he did not. And for the moment this was all that he could do.
"Thank you for meeting me here," he rumbled to Sohalia as they made their way across the long and winding bridge that would lead them to the back of the cliff that was home to the Leap of Faith. It had been very good indeed to see her at the Festival, but the nature of the gathering had made it hard to speak together, and catch up on all that had transpired since her abduction. The trip today was less comfortable than meeting in the Court of Stars... but by that token it was hopefully a less likely place for any eavesdropping members of the Family to look for them while Soh told him her tale. "Have you traveled this way before?"
